[PATCH] pinctrl: meson: mark the GPIO controller as sleeping

[Marek Szyprowski]

On 05.01.2026 18:38, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 18:28:23 +0100, Martin Blumenstingl
> <martin.blumenstingl at googlemail.com> said:
>> Hi Bartosz,
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM Bartosz Golaszewski
>> <bartosz.golaszewski at oss.qualcomm.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>>>    mutex_lock_nested+0x24/0x30
>>>    pinctrl_get_device_gpio_range+0x44/0x128
>>>    pinctrl_gpio_set_config+0x40/0xdc
>>>    gpiochip_generic_config+0x28/0x3c
>>>    gpio_do_set_config+0xa8/0x194
>> $ git grep gpiochip_generic_config drivers/pinctrl/meson/
>> drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-amlogic-a4.c:     .set_config
>>   = gpiochip_generic_config,
>> drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson.c:  pc->chip.set_config =
>> gpiochip_generic_config;
>>
>> pinctrl-amlogic-a4.c still has:
>>    .can_sleep = false,
>>
>> Are there plans to send a separate fix for pinctrl-amlogic-a4.c - or
>> was the intention to fix "all" Amlogic pin controllers in this patch
>> (which would mean that the change to pinctrl-amlogic-a4.c is missing)?
>>
>>
> Yeah, I missed it. I will send a follow-up tomorrow.

I found that drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-rockchip.c suffers for the same 
issue, although I don't see where this ".can_sleep" flag has to be added:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at 
kernel/locking/mutex.c:591
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 12, name: 
kworker/u16:0
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
6 locks held by kworker/u16:0/12:
  #0: ffff0001f0018d48 ((wq_completion)events_unbound#2){+.+.}-{0:0}, 
at: process_one_work+0x18c/0x604
  #1: ffff8000842dbdf0 (deferred_probe_work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: 
process_one_work+0x1b4/0x604
  #2: ffff0001f18498f8 (&dev->mutex){....}-{4:4}, at: 
__device_attach+0x38/0x1b0
  #3: ffff0001f75f1e90 (&gdev->srcu){.+.?}-{0:0}, at: 
gpiod_direction_output_raw_commit+0x0/0x360
  #4: ffff0001f46e3db8 (&shared_desc->spinlock){....}-{3:3}, at: 
gpio_shared_proxy_direction_output+0xd0/0x144 [gpio_shared_proxy]
  #5: ffff0001f180ee90 (&gdev->srcu){.+.?}-{0:0}, at: 
gpiod_direction_output_raw_commit+0x0/0x360
irq event stamp: 81450
hardirqs last  enabled at (81449): [<ffff8000813acba4>] 
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x74/0x78
hardirqs last disabled at (81450): [<ffff8000813abfb8>] 
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x84/0x88
softirqs last  enabled at (79616): [<ffff8000811455fc>] 
__alloc_skb+0x17c/0x1e8
softirqs last disabled at (79614): [<ffff8000811455fc>] 
__alloc_skb+0x17c/0x1e8
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 12 Comm: kworker/u16:0 Not tainted 
6.19.0-rc4-next-20260105+ #11975 PREEMPT
Hardware name: Hardkernel ODROID-M1 (DT)
Workqueue: events_unbound deferred_probe_work_func
Call trace:
  show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C)
  dump_stack_lvl+0x90/0xd0
  dump_stack+0x18/0x24
  __might_resched+0x144/0x248
  __might_sleep+0x48/0x98
  __mutex_lock+0x5c/0x894
  mutex_lock_nested+0x24/0x30
  pinctrl_get_device_gpio_range+0x44/0x128
  pinctrl_gpio_direction+0x3c/0xe0
  pinctrl_gpio_direction_output+0x14/0x20
  rockchip_gpio_direction_output+0xb8/0x19c
  gpiochip_direction_output+0x38/0x94
  gpiod_direction_output_raw_commit+0x1d8/0x360
  gpiod_direction_output_nonotify+0x7c/0x230
  gpiod_direction_output+0x34/0xf8
  gpio_shared_proxy_direction_output+0xec/0x144 [gpio_shared_proxy]
  gpiochip_direction_output+0x38/0x94
  gpiod_direction_output_raw_commit+0x1d8/0x360
  gpiod_direction_output_nonotify+0x7c/0x230
  gpiod_configure_flags+0xbc/0x480
  gpiod_find_and_request+0x1a0/0x574
  gpiod_get_index+0x58/0x84
  devm_gpiod_get_index+0x20/0xb4
  devm_gpiod_get_optional+0x18/0x30
  rockchip_pcie_probe+0x98/0x380
  platform_probe+0x5c/0xac
  really_probe+0xbc/0x298

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland